Bible > 1 Corinthians > Chapter 15 > Verse 44
◄ 1 Corinthians 15:44 ►
New International Version
it is sown a natural body, it is raised a spiritual body. If there is a natural body, there is also a spiritual body.
First we must do away with this 'dark' misnomer. It is so unfortunate that physicists use careless choice of words. They complained so much about the 'god particle' misnomer and did not care to do the same with 'dark blah blah'. So they better incongruously call something 'dark' than to call something 'god'. It shows how biased they are against 'god'. Clearly, what is 'dark' is our own minds! If we donnot understand over 90% of the universe, then we are still in 'dark ages'! 'Dark photon' here is even more telling as it is oxymoron. It litteraly means 'dark light'. So you got to know from this that these are just misnomers. Nothing is 'dark' in the ordinary way we understand 'dark'. Rather it is 'unseen'.
Next, the thorny, metallic club now lands on the heads of gurus. So if you are a 'guru' smilling at the mistaken physicists, it is now your turn! Reading through the first Corinthians chapter 15. You find that over and over, the bible explains life after death as to happen due to a change in the body, not due to something inherently immortal that somehow leaves inside the body! Even more importantly, there is no such a concept as 'materialism' in the bible. Neither does the author hinges on the 'your mind cannot understand' joker card to make his point. Rather, he only highlights that the spiritual body is different from the natural body(by which he means 'earthly') in the way stars are differnt from planets, or in the way a seed is different from a plant. In other words they are different not necessarily 'in a way the mind cannot understand'. The hope of after-life is what he is after, not a teasing to the mind by tickling it with something that ultimately doesn't make any sense!
If you asked Paul where the heaven is, he would tell you that it is 'up there far beyond the sun, far beyond the stars, far there'. He will not tell you that 'it is beyond the mind' or that 'it is in the 26th dimension' or such things. When people understood that the earth actually revolves around the sun, and as such, there is no heaven 'up there', they should have thought that there might be another place for 'heaven' that can similarly be visualized. Unfortunately, they could not conceive of such a place. So they opted to say 'it exists but the mind cannot understand'. So the embattling of 'mind' became essential part of new age religion. By the time new ideas came, they had forgotten what 'beyond the mind' was all about! The 'heaven' was a place of joy, understood by as simple an event as may be gulping some beer and noting how it might 'gladen the heart'. People did not conceive of 'heaven' as an acrobatical challenge to the mind for its own sake, such as to drive you to sit cross leged for hours, or to smock heavy dose of marijuana in an attempt to force your mind to accept irrationalities!
Having put aside the epistemological hindrance, lets now close exermine how physicists have come to understand the reality of other worlds that other beings might dwell on it! The secret is the idea so unfortunately termed 'dark photon'. So such worlds, will, unfortunately be termed as 'dark world' by a physicist. But there is nothing 'dark' about such because as we have seen, it has its own photons and 'dark photon' is actually an oxymoron! So those places can even be more full of light than even our world! Yes, they are the perfect candidates for what the ancient people called it 'heaven'. When physicists observed a distant galaxy, and noted that there is an unseen world that is bigger than the world we see, it should have rang bells! Might this be the 'heaven' that Paul et al thought that we will go there? Unfortunately, though, by this time, the religionists had found that in order to remain apparently legitimate, they had to insulate themselves from scientific criticism by saying 'it is not science' instead of just saying 'we have no scientific evidence yet'. So over time, anything that a scientist might know has come to be automatically thought 'that is not the thing' even though no 'guru' even understand it! If this unseen world had been discovered during the time of Galileo, it would have been hailed as a confirmation of the 'heaven' by the scientists, who were still also the priests!
The unseen matter plus the unseen light equals to a complete world with planets, stars and some other things that might not exist in our world. So as we think of 'extra-terestial life' we should even think more about those who might inhabit this unseen world that the physicist will incomgruously call it ''the world of dark matter and dark photons' or simply 'dark world'. But 'dark' here is an incongruous word for 'unseen'. Since physics no longer, in principle, deny that the matter can possess the qualities for the 'spiritual' body, we nolonger need to define 'spirit' in contrast with 'matter'. On the contrary, we should go back to how Paul thought about it: the 'spiritual body' is as different from the 'natural body' as the plant is different from the seed! In other words Paul makes it completely open, the possibility of 'spirit' being a different kind of matter and yes, the so called 'dark matter' that physicist now confidently beleive it exists might be such a body! It will be different from the 'earthly body' just as the body is different from the 'heavenly bodies' like the stars, just as Paul though and not via an 'inconceivable difference' the way New Age teaches!
The 'spirit' is understood as 'that which cannot be seen, tested, touched etc', which, in summary, I call it 'the unseen'. The word 'matter' is nowhere in the bible. The idea that spirit is 'not matter' was concocted during the time when people did not understand that matter can also be the 'unseen'. So it was a lazy and sloppy way of answering the question: how comes the spirit can be there without being seen? The 'wisdom' (actually foolishness) here is that the asker assumes that 'everything is matter' and therefore 'everything can be seen'. So answering that 'the spirit is not matter', undercuts the critical potential of the question. Again it relies solely on the now obsolete undestanding that 'matter must be seen'. If matter can be unseen, then the 'immaterial' no longer serve the purpose it served: of 'explaining' why the spirit is unseen! So it is an obsolete way of tackling the question! It is simply no longer satisfactory for those with a good knowledge of modern physics! It is like trying to explain how earth does not 'fall down' to a modern physicist by saying the 'the earth rest on a giant tortoise', ignoring that physicists nolonger believe that the earth must 'fall down' if nothing is beneath!
When physicists discovered that matter is actually 99.9999% empty, the ball now unnoticeably shifted squarely to the other side! Hard now is the question of how something can be seen at all, not the other wat round! However, in the uncanny inertia, people still behaved as if the hard question is how something can be there without being seen! Why can we touch an object at all? Why can't it simply percolate throgh the empty spaces forming the 99.999% part of the object? So the ground was ripe for physicists to finally accept such ideas as 'dark matter', ie a matter which exists but is practically undetectable! It was eventually understood that what makes an object tangible was photons, not 'solidity'. So if something does not interact with photons, then the 'illusion' that it is anything but something 99.9999% empty could not come about.
But it did not end there! The spiritual world must interact with itself for it to have a chance to be indeed a world on its own. So it needs its own light. So though it doesn't interact with our light, it has its own interaction. So 'dark photon' completes the puzzle of making the 'world of dark matter' a complete world, just like this one, possibly with living beings inhabiting there!
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